Grand Rounds - Sept. 11, 2020
"Collateral morbidity and mortality of the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Speakers:
Archie Bleyer, MD, Clinical Research Professor, Radiation Medicine, The Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU
Dan Weinberger, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health
Whitney Schumacher, MPH, Suicide Prevention Coordinator, Deschutes County
Objectives
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To realize to what extent the pandemic is causing other morbidities and deaths
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To deliberate the causes of the excess mortality and disease burden
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To recognize that the age of those dying of Covid-19 is decreasing
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To anticipate an even shorter life expectancy in the U.S.
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To consider what should be done to reverse these all-time ominous trends
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